Meet the composers

David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd).

Dr. Angela Elizabeth Slater is a composer whose compositional voice focuses on musically mapping aspects of the natural world into the fabric of music. Slater collaborates with performers, ensembles, and initiatives worldwide to musically explore sounds, colours, and textures.

A versatile composer of concert music, Alice Beckwith’s music is lyrical and contemporary – her melodic sound firmly rooted in the British Isles – with an emphasis above all upon story-telling. Collaborations and commissions include Endelienta Baroque, The Carice Singers, AndPiano Festival (‘Five Armitage Songs’), and St Endellion Easter Festival.

Yshani’s sound is an ever-evolving mash-up: contemporary classical music, dirty grooves, Sri Lankan parents, games, play, melancholy, and activism to list a few.

Alongside glimpses of her career as a pianist and music director, Yshani shares early drafts of new work, ideas and reflections, improvisations, and experimentation with her patrons.